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Working for WycombeMon, 21 Nov 2016 18:18:00 +0000hourly1https://wordpress.org/?v=4.6.1Comment on We must have a real EU exit, not a fake one by Steve Bakerhttp://www.stevebaker.info/2016/11/a-real-eu-exit-not-a-fake-one/comment-page-1/#comment-22869
Mon, 21 Nov 2016 18:18:00 +0000http://www.stevebaker.info/?p=16723#comment-22869There was no letter – supportive MPs approved the proposition that the UK should leave the EEA and the Customs Union. The position was fleshed out by Suella Fernandes MP in her article, linked above.
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Mon, 21 Nov 2016 14:50:55 +0000http://www.stevebaker.info/?p=16723#comment-22868Dear Steve, I cannot find anywhere the list of MPs who have signed this letter. Has it been published anywhere?
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Sun, 20 Nov 2016 20:03:24 +0000http://www.stevebaker.info/?p=16723#comment-22867This is the problem with Brexit (and politics in general actually).

These 60+ MPs – its your opinions (backed up by “facts and statistics” from a variety of “expert sources”) about what could or might be possible at some time in the future provided the rest of the World agrees with the UKs’ views and wants to play the same game the same way as you do.

Of course there are other larger groups of MPs who have different facts and figures from other experts that show nothing but negative effects on economy and finance from this form of Brexit (in fact Brexit as a whole)

There doesn’t seem to be a whole lot of other countries wishing to play this game this way at the moment.

So in essence, 60+ people who earn getting on for 3 times the national average annual salary plus other benefits (such as private health care when the NHS is falling to bits and cutting back on services) wish the force the whole country to take a massive economic gamble based on unproven, theoretical models using loads of assumptions in timeframes which may not be possible.

Here are some questions for you …

Which other countries are chomping at the bit to sign up to these new trade agreements covering products and services? And what exactly are they? Or are they so new they don’t exist yet and have to be created?

How much are they worth in total, say in 5, 10 and 15 years time and initially to offset losses by not staying in the EEA/single market/customs union?

When will these agreements with all these other countries fully materialise and how long will they take to negotiate?

What are you going to do to offset “losses” and hardships until they do materialise?

What are you going to do if your models, assumptions, negotiations etc take so long to come to fruition (or might not do that at all) that we have gone bust?

Or is it a case that MPs, yet again, are wealthy enough to ride out any economic disasters whist they wrestle with seeing if their spreadsheet models and idealogies work in practice and the rest of us go to pot?

By the way, still waiting for independent, evidence-based results of how your whole constituency voted in the referendum (unless you are able to provide the evidence).

Despite your continued belief that the constituency voted to leave, the factual information to hand shows the largest part of your constituency was a 60% result to remain.

So if it comes to a vote in Parliament to trigger Article 50, I assume and expect that you will vote against that trigger given that the constituents voted to remain and of course you do wish to represent the people that you work for properly (happy to retract this request/expectation if you can point to independent, authoritative evidence that the constituency as a whole voted leave)

Regards

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Sun, 23 Oct 2016 17:44:34 +0000http://www.stevebaker.info/?p=16641#comment-22865So you don’t believe in free speech?
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Thu, 14 Jul 2016 22:49:28 +0000http://www.stevebaker.info/?p=16571#comment-22862Yes I know from the birth of my latest grand daughter yesterday at Stoke Manderville how precarious this situation is to expectant mother’s, causing potential risks and stress in a 20 mile journey. What about those without means of transport or the finances to make this trip. All the above, costs of ambulances, risks of births on the journey, all point to this situation needing to be resolved quickly. We need proper and sustained investment in WYCOMBE hospital with the growing size of it’s local population.
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